Why Niagara University's Special Education Certificate?

Prepares teachers for the policies and practices of teaching students with disabilities.

Provides teachers with a professional core of courses emphasizing special education services and enhancing performance of students with disabilities.

Familiarizes teachers with various cultural, ethnic, racial and social backgrounds so that they may create a classroom environment which provides an atmosphere in which students can learn according to their abilities.

Provides teachers with classroom methods, effective instructional strategies, and curriculum/ assessment modifications necessary for instructing students with disabilities within the general education framework of inclusive practices.

Prepares teachers with identification instruments and strategies through testing and observation of students with physical, emotional, social and learning disabilities.

Assists teachers in creating a classroom environment for the inclusion of all children, regardless of ability, in which they can enhance performance in all areas of the curricular standards.